Hudspeth: I really like our running backs

[CajunEXPRESS]

Oh yeah I know all about it. Slow play a Vermilion parish kid because everyone is a damn Cajun here. I had options, just was to darn stubborn to leave the state.

It won't ever change imo.

All things equal you take the local. That's a strategic decision. All things are rarely equal. You may be full up on running backs, but are desperate for a linebacker and there's one who you've rated equally from Shreveport to the running back from Carencro.

If you truly think a kid is simply too immature for a scholarship this year you offer the preferred walk on. If he makes the two deep you need to then deliver the scholarship.

[Boomer]

Oh yeah I know all about it. Slow play a Vermilion parish kid because everyone is a damn Cajun here. I had options, just was to darn stubborn to leave the state.

It won't ever change imo.

.... Guess I don't catch this logic.....you judge whom you think worthy of a s-ship based on your evaluation of his ability......sometimes this could be skewed by immediate needs and what they can provide.....you offer based on this without regard go where they live, although it is great to get local kids......encourage borderline kids to walk on and it is then up to the kid to prove himself and btw have seen many through the years that have earned s-ships..... So I wonder how many from da parish we missed on that we offered???

[CajunNation]

.... Guess I don't catch this logic.....you judge whom you think worthy of a s-ship based on your evaluation of his ability......sometimes this could be skewed by immediate needs and what they can provide.....you offer based on this without regard go where they live, although it is great to get local kids......encourage borderline kids to walk on and it is then up to the kid to prove himself and btw have seen many through the years that have earned s-ships..... So I wonder how many from da parish we missed on that we offered???

I can think of a QB, and it eventually cost Bustle his job.

[cajun4life]

.... Guess I don't catch this logic.....you judge whom you think worthy of a s-ship based on your evaluation of his ability......sometimes this could be skewed by immediate needs and what they can provide.....you offer based on this without regard go where they live, although it is great to get local kids......encourage borderline kids to walk on and it is then up to the kid to prove himself and btw have seen many through the years that have earned s-ships..... So I wonder how many from da parish we missed on that we offered???

What I am saying is we slow play a lot of local athletes. Especially ones who may be TOPs qualifiers. It has cost us on several athletes. Or we just flat out don't recruit them as hard because it's easy to get to them.

[SlickRick]

I can think of a QB, and it eventually cost Bustle his job.

Also from Erath.

[CrappDaddy]

I can think of a QB, and it eventually cost Bustle his job.

Mike D would have been the QB regardless. I'm sure if the staff saw a gaping hole at QB they would have offered him. Good player, but not what cost Bustle his job.

[Turbine]

Mike D would have been the QB regardless. I'm sure if the staff saw a gaping hole at QB they would have offered him. Good player, but not what cost Bustle his job.

Mike D would have started but McNeese wouldn't have had the hot hand that it did, thus saving Bustle the worst loss of his career.

[Just1More]

I like our running backs too. They're not the problem.

[ULGrad@HOU]

If recruiting running backs was all the staff had to do, we would be awesome.

[Boomer]

Mike D would have been the QB regardless. I'm sure if the staff saw a gaping hole at QB they would have offered him. Good player, but not what cost Bustle his job.

......Was told to me by a very reliable Erathian that he was offered by the Cajuns and wanted UL but was steered by his HS coach to mcN!!!

[J-Town Cajun]

We bugged the staff for a year to make the offer to Mitchell. One person was a little slow in making the decision.

This is not true. I was in contact with the UL coaches about Travis Eteinne from Jennings since Travis was a Freshman in HS. Buy the time Etienne and Mitchell were Jr.'s the UL coaches saw Etienne as a regional recruit and not likely to get him and they kept telling me they liked the Mitchell kid from Erath and thought they had a much better chance to land him than Etienne. Well Etienne signed with Clemson we got Mitchell. I say UL coaches played their cards right with this one! Who really was stupid in this was LSU not offering either. Etienne was eventually offered by LSU after Clemson who offered the night after the national championship game.

[Hark Mudspeth]

Just wait until we land Brian Mcguire...kid is gonna be a stud.